The self-evident TV transmission failed for a reason that would be unthinkable today: at 6600 marks. As is usual at that time, the transfer rights were still negotiated for a European game. Borussia s Managing Director Helmut Grashoff and the ARD were already on the goal of tough negotiations actually on the target, as the deal only spoke only a few hours before the kick-off. Joinal: VAT! 60,000 marks wanted to transfer the ARD of Borussia as a fee for the transfer. When the contract was submitted for four hours before the impetus in Gladbach, it was included in the value added tax of eleven percent. GRASHOFF Again was the opinion that television has to pay the agreed 60,000 marks plus VAT, so a total of 66,600 marks. Both parties, grassom and ARD man Ernst Huberty as a representative of the television institute, insisted on their respective points of view. We would have left too little And so it happened that the TV screen remained black because of a sum of 6600 marks. We do not le...